Tag: spotify
Onkyo reveal Spotify-streaming CR-N755 Mini Hi-Fi receiver
Onkyo have just revealed the CR-N755 Mini Hi-Fi receiver, which niftily offers networked music streaming, including Spotify playback, among its list of features. Once configured alongside a user's home network, the CR-N755 can access Spotify playlists, Last.fm, AUPEO!, and vTuner…
Xbox Music: More details of Microsoft's Spotify rival emerge
New details have emerged on the Xbox Music service, the digital streaming app set to rival Spotify on Microsoft's Xbox 360 console. Briefly detailed at Microsoft's E3 conference, it has now emerged that the service will launch later this year…
iTunes cloud integration to take on Spotify, socially
iTunes is well overdue a makeover, and 2012 looks set to see the most significant changes to Apple's music library management and store platform for some time. The latest reports suggest that Apple's iCloud storage service will be deeply integrated…
Spotify add individual artist apps: Rancid, Quincy Jones, Disturbed, Tiesto
Spotify have begun introducing apps focussed on individua artists to their desktop application, with Rancid, Quincy Jones, Disturbed and Tiesto the first artists to be featured. While all feature info and playlists from the musicians, all are slightly different. Quincy…
What if Spotify had been invented in the 1980s?
Well, forgoing the need for widespread high-speed broadband, advanced graphical user interfaces and any tunes other than A-Ha or the Beverly Hills Cop theme, it would have probably looked something a bit like this, command line inputs and all….
UK digital music spending overtakes physical sales for first time
It's a landmark day or the British music business, as the British Phonographic Industry has just announced that, for the first time ever, digital downloads and streaming have overtaken the sales of CDs, tapes and vinyl in the UK. 55.5%…
Spotify rival Rdio launches in the UK
Rdio has made a bit of a name for itself stateside as a valid Spotify alternative, and now the music streaming service has touched down for UK users too. Matching Spotify's price plans at £5 a month for a desktop-only…
New Spotify student discount offers 50% off Premium subscriptions
Students are being a offered a mighty-tempting new deal from Spotify, who are knocking a giant 50% off their Premium accounts for anyone with a valid registered NUS Extra card. Instead of the standard £9.99 fee per month for Spotify…
Spotify for iPad finally released
After waiting a good few years for it to arrive, Spotify have finally released their app for Apple's iPad tablet. Not just merely a re-sized iPhone app like the one Spotify had been hiding behind on iPad until now, the…
Spotify founder Daniel Ek is worth the same as Mick Jagger, says Sunday Times Rich List 2012
Spotify founder Daniel Ek has made it onto the Sunday Time Rich List for 2012, with an estimated worth of £190 million. That puts the music streaming guru on a level footing with The Rolling Stone's Mick Jagger and David…
